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In 1888 Jerome married Georgina Stanley and a year later he published his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat. In 1885 he published On the Stage - and Off which was followed in 1886 by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. After his father died, Jerome left school at fourteen and worked as a railway clerk, actor, journalist and teacher. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall on and brought up in East London. George died in 1912, followed by his brother in 1919. It was published in 1892, with Weedon's illustrations, to instant acclaim and has remained in print ever since. The Diary of a Nobody began life as a series of columns the brothers wrote together for Punch which they later expanded into a novel. Weedon trained as a painter at the Slade and the Royal Academy, but soon turned to acting like his brother. George became a popular composer and performer of comic songs as well as a successful actor. George and Weedon Grossmith were born in London in 18 respectively to a theatrical family who were friends with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. If you enjoyed Three Men in a Boat, you might like Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, also available in Penguin Classics. He later went on to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine, The Idler, and continued to write articles and plays.

His first book, On Stage and Off, a collection of humorous pieces about the theatre, was published in 1885, and was followed the year after with the more commercially-successful The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow but it was with Three Men in a Boat (1889) that Jerome achieved lasting fame. He left school at fourteen to become a railway clerk, the first in a long line of jobs that included actor, teacher and journalist.

Jerome (1859-1927) was born in Walstall, Staffordshire, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School.

Jerome's life and times, and the changing world of Victorian England he depicts - from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicycling. In his introduction, Jeremy Lewis examines Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.

But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin Classics. A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K.